This week I have learned how difficult it is getting media from a client. I have been bugged about putting up more images for the restaurant site I have been working on. I told them that if they took there own pictures it would save them money and me. After a week of talking about it I finally set up meeting with them to take pictures on sunday myself and they canceled on me. I am planing on doing a actionscript picture map for some of the food. I have been looking at some code and examples and it seems like it will be somewhat simple. I will add buttons on certain parts of the images that will set a loader and unload in mouse click. Clicking the button will pop up a image with a description of the food. That movie clip will be a sort of button so if you click it , it will unload. I wont know how difficult it will be tho untill i start it and i cant start it till i get the images from the owner.

My Current Work. Feb 11th

This is the project I have had to work on this week http://masterjoessushi.com/

Its a upscale sushi restaurant that I work for. I have been using wordpress to get it done because I am working for cheap and on my own time to do it. Working on this project has further shown me the need for a more flexible system for web development than what I am using. Although it is a pretty theme, hacking the source code and permissions in the data base have lead to more problems down the road. I have had to /cmod a lot of the permissions which has lead to the internal editor screwing up for me which has been a pain. I re sized and colored all the pictures I have been given, added a facebook link with a a herf= added a google maps html link. there are a bunch of minor tweeks I would like to do but think digging through the core will be more trouble than it is worth. I will finish the rest when the client provides more pictures. I'm looking foward to building my next site purely in dreamweaver and adding the tags and snippets from the cms. It will be more of my own. I'm also going to start building sites in a virtual enviroment on my computer rather than working on them live on the server

Proposal

I have been thinking exactly what direction I have wanted to go with my senior digital project. Through the past few years I have jumped from a bunch of different things that I thought I wanted to do but always end up to learn a little of each skill set becoming a jack of all trades master of none. This last year though I seem to be spending a lot of time on web development. I have gone through a bunch of tutorials on virtual machine hosting, content management systems, search engines, and data bases. I find although I can understand a lot of code when necessary to do what I need, I have very weak design and function understanding of html and css. I have my own server to host sites and a couple of real world projects I can work on so I propose building a html/css site from scratch. Then using that as my template to add to a CMS and adding functionality with Java and or Flash. The site I will first work on will most likely be for a Asian restaurant that will give me the opportunity to use some artistic flare and perhaps build 2-3 different self built themes that can be changed. I will be using sites like w3schools The Coding Pad and NetNuts+ to name a few. Hopefully this, along with my other commercial jobs, will be enough to start a portfolio under my own website.